This document outlines an agenda and presentation on supporting graduating students' transitions from higher education to their careers. It discusses using Schlossberg's transition theory and the concept of "challenge and support". It also describes Ryerson University's #RoadFromRyerson initiative which uses events, social media, and student blogging to facilitate conversations around post-graduation transitions and connect students with alumni. The presentation reviews best practices, uses technology to engage students, and discusses ways to improve collaboration among university departments in supporting graduating students.
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Ryerson's Career Checkpoint: Embedding Student Development into On-Campus Job...Ryerson Student Affairs
Ryerson's Career Checkpoint: Embedding Student Development into On-Campus Jobs
by Paulina Nozka & Kaitlyn Taylor-Asquini
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Ryerson's Career Checkpoint: Embedding Student Development into On-Campus Job...Ryerson Student Affairs
Ryerson's Career Checkpoint: Embedding Student Development into On-Campus Jobs
by Paulina Nozka & Kaitlyn Taylor-Asquini
As part of its commitment to preparing students for life after graduation, Ryerson University is embedding learning outcomes and implementing a professional development program into its 1,000+ on-campus student jobs. Informed by leading theories in student and career development, Career Checkpoint is composed of five key components, including supervisor toolkits and a student employee development program. The pilot year includes test and control groups involving multiple University departments, to demonstrate the benefit of embedding co-curricular learning in the workplace.
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#RoadFromRyerson: A New Pathway for Graduating Student Transition Support - R...Ryerson Student Affairs
Start From Within: #RyersonSA PD Conference 2016
#RoadFromRyerson: A New Pathway for Graduating Student Transition Support
by Rachel Barreca, Andrew Bisnauth, and Bailey Parnell
We invest a lot of resources into supporting the transitional needs of our incoming students, but pay less attention to the outgoing transition of graduating students. For some, this is a new challenge, as the formal education portion of their lives comes to an end and gets replaced by the world of work. Come learn about how we’re using Schlossberg’s transition theory (1981) and Fisher’s Process of Transition model (2012) to inform an innovative, collaborative pilot project (#RoadFromRyerson), and about our vision for future programming for our graduating students.
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Road to the Right Major: Strategies for Advising Exploratory Students
Working with exploratory/undecided students can be a challenging and overwhelming task for many academic advisors. Given a significant proportion of the entering student body at most colleges and universities is composed of undecided/exploratory students and that continuing students have the potential to fall into the exploratory/undecided category at any point in time, it is essential for academic advisors to have a well-developed set of strategies that can be used to appropriately guide these students down the road to academic success and ultimately graduation.
This presentation is will combine theory and practice using an easy to follow navigation theme. We will discuss the following types of exploratory/undecided students and strategies advisors can use when working with these various subpopulations:
“U-Turn” Students – These students have already declared a major, but then start to question their decision and engage in exploratory behavior (e.g. taking non-major courses) only to later return to their initial major.
“Stuck in the Roundabout” Students – These students tend to be high-achieving and have real interest in multiple majors. They also have the aptitude to be successful in multiple majors making it even more difficult to decide on one program in specific.
“No Direction” Students – These students have no idea what direction they want to head in or have yet to find a major that holds their interest.
“Sharp Right Turn” Students – These students have been working toward declaring a specific major or have already declared a major, but quickly decide they want to head in a different direction (e.g. a student that is interested in Biology and decides to switch to Political Science).
“Head-On Collision” Students – These students have already “hit the wall” and cannot go any further in their current major. Many of these students are struggling academically and may be on or are nearing an academic warning or probation status.
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
* Clearly identify the various subpopulations of exploratory/undecided students
* Assess the unique needs of different types of exploratory/undecided students
* Develop appropriate strategies to guide and retain exploratory/undecided students
* Better understand the decision making processes that guide exploratory/undecided students when attempting to select or remain in a major
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Presentation at the HEA-funded workshop 'Using active and experiential Learning to improve student employability in Business and Marketing'.
This workshop was aimed at colleagues seeking ideas and advice about incorporating active and experiential learning into the marketing curriculum or wishing to improve upon current practice. The workshop identified various approaches which enable students to gain valuable employability skills and considered the benefits and disadvantages of these approaches.
This presentation is part of a related blog post that provides an overview of the event: http://bit.ly/NanSOJ
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#RoadFromRyerson: A New Pathway for Graduating Student Transition Support - R...Ryerson Student Affairs
Start From Within: #RyersonSA PD Conference 2016
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“U-Turn” Students – These students have already declared a major, but then start to question their decision and engage in exploratory behavior (e.g. taking non-major courses) only to later return to their initial major.
“Stuck in the Roundabout” Students – These students tend to be high-achieving and have real interest in multiple majors. They also have the aptitude to be successful in multiple majors making it even more difficult to decide on one program in specific.
“No Direction” Students – These students have no idea what direction they want to head in or have yet to find a major that holds their interest.
“Sharp Right Turn” Students – These students have been working toward declaring a specific major or have already declared a major, but quickly decide they want to head in a different direction (e.g. a student that is interested in Biology and decides to switch to Political Science).
“Head-On Collision” Students – These students have already “hit the wall” and cannot go any further in their current major. Many of these students are struggling academically and may be on or are nearing an academic warning or probation status.
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
* Clearly identify the various subpopulations of exploratory/undecided students
* Assess the unique needs of different types of exploratory/undecided students
* Develop appropriate strategies to guide and retain exploratory/undecided students
* Better understand the decision making processes that guide exploratory/undecided students when attempting to select or remain in a major
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Start From Within: #RyersonSA PD Conference 2016
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Start From Within: #RyersonSA PD Conference 2016
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Start From Within: #RyersonSA PD Conference 2016
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Start From Within: #RyersonSA PD Conference 2016
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Janine Robb, University of Toronto
Andrea Levinson, University of Toronto,
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Karen Cornies, Redeemer University College,
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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3. Learning Outcomes and Theoretical Foundations
At the end of this session participants will be able to:
1. Understand and apply basic concepts from Schlossberg’s
Transition Theory.
2. Understand and apply the concept of ‘challenge and
support’ in their practice.
3. Recognize the gaps in programming within student affairs
divisions/higher education institutions relating to
graduating student transition support.
4. Learning Outcomes and Theoretical Foundations
4. Understand and integrate best practices relating to
graduating student transition support.
5. Understand how technology and social media can be
used to support graduating students in their
transitions.
14. Why?
Alumni
➔ “No communication about what to expect after graduation.”
➔ “Didn’t know what alumni relations was really as a student.”
Students
➔ “Faculties don’t promote Alumni Relations department.”
➔ “Graduating students need to know what they can come back for
help with”
➔ “Let grads know that there is a support system of alumni and
facilitate connection.”
19. Other Events
● Graduating Student Leader Reception
● Networking Reception
● Speaking Your Language
● New Grad Job Fair
● Classrooms to Careers
● Convocation
20. How We Collaborated
● Created a unified team
● Held regular stakeholder meetings
● Created a single brand
● Supported each other
● Provided feedback
● Debriefed to improve
21. Online Campaign
TWITTER
● 1100+ Tweets
● 54000+ Avg Daily Impressions
BLOG
● 352,371 Ad impressions
● 13,208 Page + Blog Content
Impressions
INSTAGRAM
● 500+ posts
ANECDOTES
● From 5
● From others
25. 1. Audition Students
2. Launch Campaign & Introduce Students
3. Have them produce weekly blogs
4. Have them post social updates
5. Encourage discussion with others
How-To
26. Online Campaign
“After writing my last
exams I was not sure
what I wanted to do. I
felt disappointed that I
didn’t have my career
together, and confused
as to how all the hard
work I had put into my
career thus far could
have possibly left me
feeling as though I was
starting from scratch.” -
Danielle D’Costa
27. Online Campaign
“To be honest, I feel like I’ve been a rollercoaster of emotions ever since I
wrote my last final exam of undergrad last month. I go through a cycle of
feelings every day.. excited, happy, relieved, and more recently really anxious
and nervous.” - Sarah Joaquin
“As an international student, I am expected to have a backup plan, a place to
go if I don’t stay in Canada, career prospects abroad and such. The scariest
thing for me now is that I don’t. If I were to leave Canada, I would head to
Pakistan, my country of citizenship and the place my parents were born and
raised. Although Pakistan is my country of citizenship, I never lived there.” -
Syed Mahmood
29. Wins & Opportunities
Wins
● Identified & connected with
key stakeholders
● Collaboration
● The Last Lecture
● Uptake in Hashtag
● Interest in Blogging
● Supervisors believed in us
Opportunities
● More Lead Time
● Expanding the
Conversation
● Staff Lead Conversation
● Last Lecture Assessment
32. Attributes of Stakeholders
● Decisions: They control or influence the project budget.
● Authority: They provide permission to proceed.
● Need: They directly benefit from or are impacted by the project.
● Connections: They remove roadblocks or exert influence when
needed to ensure project success.
● Energy: Their positive or negative energy could affect project
success.
33. 4 S’s of Transition
1. Situation
2. Self
3. Support
4. Strategies
34. Activity
I commit to ____ at @YourInstitution.
#RoadFromRyerson
e.g. I commit to understanding Schlossberg’s
theory at @RyersonU. #RoadFromRyerson
35. To-Do List
1. Follow & engage with the
#RoadFromRyerson hashtag
2. Brush up on Schlossberg’s theory
3. Start the conversation on your
campus
Experienced professional - Rachel Barreca
New professional - Andrew Bisnauth
In the transition between student & brand spankin’ new professional - Bailey Parnell
N.B. Tweeting is encouraged during the session and later we’ll be asking you to get online, so now is a good time to ensure you’re hooked into the internet. If you do Tweet about this session, please use the hashtag #RoadFromRyerson
Emotional knowledge - the wisdom and knowledge that resides in our affective realm.
We want to tap into that to knowledge to inform this conversation and to activate our empathy for our students going through graduation transitions.
Guided Imagery Exercise
We want to ground ourselves in the lived experience of our graduating students and use empathy as a tool for our work.
Ask you to close your eyes for a couple of minutes, or lower them, or whatever will help you focus and remove distractions.
Take a couple of deep breaths. Breathe in slowly and deeply. (take deep breath in) And breathe out slowly. (breathe out with group) Do this one more time. (model the deep breath again)
I want you to open up your memory bank and think back to when you started at college or university. Go find a memory about the weeks leading up to your first days on campus. Or perhaps what’s coming to mind more easily is a moment from your first weeks.
Look around. What do you see? Who is there with you? What do you hear? What do you smell?
How are you feeling in that moment? Are you happy? Sad? Confused? Excited? Unsure? Frightened? Alone? Supported? Something else completely? A combination?
Who is there to help you?
Let’s take another deep breath. (model the deep breath)
Now I want you to think about your last year of college or university. Undergraduate or graduate degree, diploma, or certificate - it doesn’t matter. Just think about your final months in the program.
Go find a specific memory of that year when you were thinking about life after graduation. Look around. What do you see? Who is there with you? What do you hear? What do you smell?
How are you feeling in that moment? Are you happy? Sad? Confused? Excited? Unsure? Frightened? Something else completely? A combination?
Who is there to help you now?
Now, hold both memories in your heart. What felt the same about those memories? What felt different?
Take another deep breath. (model deep breath) And we’re going to take one final deep breath and, as you exhale slowly, I want you to slowly open your eyes and come back to the present moment in this room.
Model for analyzing human adaptation to transition.
Nancy Schlossberg’s model for analyzing human adaptation to transition
According to Schlossberg (1981), transition occurs when an event (or non-event) changes our assumptions about the world and our place in it as well as our subsequent behaviour and relationships
changes our relationships, routines, assumptions, and roles
Transition process has three components:
approaching change, taking stock, and taking charge
A transition exists only if it is perceived as one by the person experiencing it.
Whatever the transition may be, it is more important to focus on how it interacts with:
the context,
skill-sets,
characteristics, and
perceptions of the person involved.
THIS is what helps us understand the meaning of the transition.
Three types of transitions:
anticipated - example? (graduation)
unanticipated - example? (sudden loss of job)
non-event - example? (not getting a promotion)
4 types
not going into now
Context - person’s relationship to transition and the setting it takes place in.
Impact determined by the degree transition alters daily life.
Negative and positive transitions can both cause stress.
Mo - new job lined up, but means he needs his Post Graduation Work Permit as international student
Danielle - “But along with the thrill of graduating, while the stress of classes disappeared a new kind of stress took its place.” Searching for a job.
Multiple concurrent transitions can compound stress.
Sarah - moving ‘back home’, OSAP debt, looking for work
Impact of transition and our ability to adapt is influenced by the ratio between our “assets and liabilities”
Transition is a process that takes place over time.
move from preoccupation with to integration of the transition
time this takes will vary
may lead to growth, but decline also possible
can be viewed with ambivalence
Taking charge: moving in, through, and out of transition.
These are the phases of transitions
Taking stock: 4 s’s of transition: situation, self, support, and strategies
4 major sets of factors that influence our ability to cope with transition
What resources do we have in these areas?
As we talked about a minute ago, the impact of change is based on the ratio of these assets and liabilities
This explains why different people react differently to the same situation or why the same person reacts differently at different times
Situation - what are some of the things about the situation that affect a transition?
Trigger
Timing
Control
Role change
Duration
Previous experience with a similar transition
Concurrent stress
Assessment
Self - what are the factors related to ‘self’?
Personal and demographic characteristics
how person views life
socioeconomic status
gender
age (psychological over chronological)
stage of life
state of health
ethnicity
Psychological resources
Aids to coping
ego development
outlook, esp. optimism and self-efficacy
commitment
values
Support - what are the factors related to ‘support’?
Social support
Types
intimate relationships
family units
networks of friends
institutions and communities
Functions
affect
affirmation
aid
honest feedback
Measurement
done by ID’ing stable supports, role dependent supports, supports likely to change
Strategies - what are some types of ‘strategies’?
Three types
those that modify the situation
those that control the meaning of the problem
those that id ways to manage stress of situation’s aftermath
Four modes
info seeking
direct actions
inhibition of action
intrapsychic behaviour
Flexibility and mixed methods is most effective way to cope
IN SUMMARY - TO CONNECT ROAD FROM RYERSON WITH SCHLOSSBERG’S THEORY
GRADUATION IS AN ANTICIPATED EVENT THAT BRINGS BOTH POSITIVE & NEGATIVE CHANGES
WE ARE TRYING TO HELP OUR GRADUATING STUDENTS AS THEY APPROACH AND GO THROUGH THESE CHANGES TO TAKE STOCK AND TAKE CHARGE, AND MAKE MEANING OF THESE CHANGES
Rachel
Ask group to contribute
Rachel
This is the crux of our presentation.
RACHEL
Rachel & Lesley’s personal experiences with their transitions.
Our informal conversations
Lesley’s decision to start The Last Lecture at Ryerson
Our conversations facilitated easy collaboration and it fit into Rachel’s new role in the Career Centre perfectly
Our background in theory gave us a strong foundation
At some point, our collaboration for The Last Lecture developed enough into Road From Ryerson - and our vision for the future of RFR was big enough - that we knew we needed to create a one-page memo/proposal to our ED of RyersonSA and our supervisors.
This had theory throughout and collaboration is emphasized.
Meant that we had buy in and support from above.
John is an ED who creates space and support for this kind of initiative, creativity, etc.
Research done by Alumni Relations at Ryerson told us…
From Alumni Focus Group:
- No transition communication about student to graduate transition – what to expect after graduation
- Didn’t know what Alumni Relations was really as a student
From Student Focus Group:
- Students are directed to Career Centre by faculties for any information about life after graduation and to connect with alumni
- Faculties don’t promote Alumni Relations department
- Give back messaging should be imbedded into the student experience so that they are aware of Alumni Relations and the role of it after they graduate
- Without alumni speaking to students it’s hard to know what the possibilities are after graduation
- Graduating students need to know what they can come back to help with
- Let grads know that there is a support system of alumni and facilitate connection
- Provide value to alumni to give back and stay involved – i.e. free career services, career building program
Bailey
It’s a hashtag, but it is so much more.
We know that the road towards convocation and beyond can be quite daunting at times.
It will feel so good to cross that stage on graduation day, but there is a lot to do and figure out first, and it means saying goodbye to favourite people and spaces as well as to an important time in your life.
We want to make that road easier AND
to facilitate reflection, community,conversations, and connections to help deal with these changes.
When this hashtag is used it is attached with an event or program or activity geared towards helping students prepare to graduate from Ryerson.
In creating a unified graduating transition program, we combined forces by combining many different events. We took one new idea and connected it to a pre-existing event to kick off the transition period with one big celebration.
The idea came up in Student Life - the department I work in - to host a Last Lecture. It was done at other universities and colleges across the US and Canada and was fairly familiar but never done at Ryerson.
In brief conversations with other departments on campus, we found a team who either had ideas for new programming or needed to change existing programming to better serve their target population. Instead of working separately, we decided to bring all of these programs under a single banner, #RoadfromRyerson. We’ll talk about the overarching campaign a bit later, but right now we’ll chat about the events, and how we got to where we are today.
As a part of the #RoadfromRyerson campaign there were several events which would kick off the transition, and lead all the way to Convocation in the Spring.
The cornerstone event was the combination of The Last Lecture & the Alumni Expo.
The last lecture was made popular by Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon, when he did his last lecture after being diagnosed with Cancer. Unfortunately there’s no time to play it here, but there is a video of his presentation on youtube and we’ve included the URL in our hand out, if you’re interested in viewing it later.
To keep it in line with the collaborations fostered through the theme of graduating student transition we solicited an Alumni Speaker who would be engaging and relevant to our graduating class. In addition to that we had a popular Faculty Speaker and auditioned students to participate as our graduating student speakers.
The process went something like this:
1. We reached out to Alumni Relations to secure an alumni speaker, who was again, engaging and relevant.
2. Due to time constraints, and the need for the inaugural event to be as high impact as possible, we sought out an engaging Faculty member. In the future we may open it up for students to decide who their Faculty speaker will be.
3. In seeking a graduating student speaker(s), we created a program proposal form which students would complete if interested in becoming the student speaker(s) for the event.
After forms were collected, we scheduled auditions and asked students to prepare their presentation for how they would perform them on the day of the event. We had 11 students sign up, with 8 eventually auditioning with us. When the student speakers were selected, we scheduled meetings with them to examine the feedback from the auditions, work on presentation skills and delivery, as well as to make it more concise and engaging.
The Alumni Expo is hosted annually by our Alumni Relations office and is an event showcasing the programs and services available to graduates of Ryerson. In the last few years it was a program that was seeing declining student attendance, spurring them to consider a change in delivery and promotion. In asking Alumni Relations for help securing an alumni speaker for The Last Lecture, we were able to create a collaborative partnership where the last lecture and alumni expo would happen on the same day, assisting each other in the marketing of both events, and also drawing crowds from one event to the other.
This event takes place in a fair format, where sponsors and partners set up installations to promote their programs, services and deals. The planning of this event involved reaching out to all stakeholders to gauge interest in hosting a booth, once all interested parties were signed up, the layout was created. The layout was created in a way that would naturally guide students towards an adjoining room where the Last Lecture was being held. We captured attendance by swiping student ID cards through the Passport Program which is a platform available through CampusLabs. This helps us to collect student emails which has allowed us to connect with those students again with a follow-up survey.
There were two other things that happened on the night of The Last Lecture that we should mention:
A Graduating Student Leader Reception beforehand
A Networking Reception afterwards
To celebrate the successes of our engaged, involved student leaders on campus, and to encourage them to continue their support for the university by getting involved on the alumni side, Alumni Relations sponsored and hosted a Graduating Student Leader Reception, which was open to involved students from a number of departments and programs on campus. This also acted as a pre-event for the Last Lecture, which we hoped would have a large turnout and then translate into a good turnout at the Alumni Expo and Last Lecture.
After the Last Lecture and Alumni Expo there was a closing networking reception hosted by the Career Centre to celebrate the graduating class. This took place in the same space as the expo which would again give students the opportunity to visit the booths, but also to added a more ceremonious close to the event. Students, staff and Faculty were all present to network and learn more about what the Career Centre has to offer to alumni.
Other events connected to RoadFromRyerson on campus, include:
Speaking your language: Let's talk graduation
This was one installation in the let's talk series that included talks on mental health, relationships and other topics related to student life, health and wellness and academic success for International students. This session focused in articulating experiences, common transitional fears and issues surrounding graduating students.
New Grad Job Fair
was a collaboration between Ryerson and UofT. It was an opportunity for students about to graduate (and recent alumni) to meet potential employers and vice versa.
Classrooms to Careers an interactive one day program run by the Career Centre designed specifically for new graduates who are just starting their job hunt or who are having difficulty finding employment. Students learn effective strategies for gaining employment through networking, cold calling and using internet resources, in addition to employment preparation topics.
Convocation
I'm sure we all know this one, the final ceremony celebrating and honoring our graduating class. This was a major win for us, as we thought it would take at least a year or two before we could prove to the Convocation office that it would be beneficial to join us in this common branding for graduating student transition support and celebration. Luckily, RUStudentLife had some pre-existing relationships with key people and a strong enough and reliable brand that we made a successful pitch. The hashtag is in the official convocation programs. We will have an active presence at each ceremony to engage with students and add to our social media campaign. And we hope to have a live Twitter feed in the Ryerson Theatre while parents and family members await the graduands before the ceremony.
In bringing these events together we did the following things:
We created a unified group who were passionate, motivated and believed graduating student transition was important and worth resources.
We held regular stakeholder meetings updating on progress, new projects, challenges and successes. We also met with other departments on campus who had programming targeting the graduating student population; and proposed a comprehensive schedule of events and that were connected through a common campaign
We unified the entire transition under a single banner. At Ryerson, it was the #RoadfromRyerson campaign
We provided support for each collaborator in the planning and coordination of events, marketing, and provided feedback and support as necessary
After the event we held a program-wide debrief to improve programming for next year.
As mentioned earlier, #RFR was inspired by it’s counterpart, #RTR.
#RTR was quite similar in that students auditioned to be one of the 5 students who would share their journeys TO ryerson with their peers.
Orientation is the largest part of RUSL summer responsibilities, so our work shifted more towards incoming students as opposed to current students
RU Student Life was built on students telling their own stories and we thought it would be amazing for the same to be said for these incoming students
After choosing the 5 students, LG came on board as a sponsor and equipped each of the bloggers with a phone to document their experience and 18 more during orientation week.
the campaign ended up blowing up quantitatively and more importantly, qualitatively.
Students on both the blogging side and the one interacting with the hashtag said that this campaign “made it easier for them to come to Ryerson”. They said they “could relate to the stories”
It was these anecdotes & theory that told us this was a real need.
After that campaign, Rachel and her team and I and my team thought, had separate conversation about this. Graduate student transition vs. another roadTo
What is the online component? - BP
Start with a short “Why?” section.
Approach as a User’s Manual. What were the steps we took in general terms and then describe specifically what we did. This is the HOW TO.
here are some of the anecdotes
[THIS WILL UPDATE BEFORE CACUSS]
We are still in the middle of the campaign, so we can’t give you summarizing statistics, however this is what has happened so far.
We’ve amassed _____ tweets causing over ___ impressions. The related blogd have over _____reads and there are over ___ instagram posts.
Staff vs. student involvement. changed as soon as the blogs started coming out. Being excited nd passionate. us to student leaders
These are currently the top words and hashtags associated with the campiagn, #Startedfromthebottom being a personal fave of mine
So far, this is telling us that this is something student want to engage with
What is the online component? - BP
Start with a short “Why?” section.
Approach as a User’s Manual. What were the steps we took in general terms and then describe specifically what we did. This is the HOW TO.
One of the major success factors in both of these campaigns is the fact that the content is created by students, for students. #RoadToRyerson was conceptualized and executed by students as well.
Incorporating students into your process gets them more invested and ensures that we are producing content we know they will want to consume. We know they are writing in a way their peers would understand.
What makes it especially impactful is that through this online campaign we were able to combine what we know about transition theory, as Rachel pointed out with the authenticity of having students capture it themselves
It is a beautiful collaboration of those who know and understand the transition leading the campaign, student leaders guiding it further and then students legitimately sharing their process with us
We encourage you to incorporate students as much as possible into your process if it’s a possibility at all
Combination of theory which does help us and authenticity of students telling
Knowledgeable guiding it
Student leaders guiding it further
Students saying exactly what it feels like
Don’t be absolute
Don’t speak beyond my knowledge base
What is the online component? - BP
Start with a short “Why?” section.
Approach as a User’s Manual. What were the steps we took in general terms and then describe specifically what we did. This is the HOW TO.
So how did we do all of this.
Audition Students
Through our student life brand, we publish the “What, How, Why” blog.
Here’s what we’re doing, here’s why we’re doing it and here’s how you can be involved. We ask them to submit a 30s video telling us about their time at Ryerson. This allows us to see their general demeanor. There are no requirements in terms of involvement or life after school. We look for:
Diversity of stories
program
gender diversity
maturity
cultural diversity
International student
Ability-based homogenous story
Launch Campaign & Introduce Students
We collect photos and information from the 5 students, build their pages and have our designers make some grapphics in order to visually connect the campaign. Then we have our big launch.
Have them produce weekly blogs
after their introductory blogs in launch week, the 5 students are required to writ weekly blogs updating on their personal stories and speaking to one or more aspects of their transition, We encourage them to be authentic and real. to open up.
Have them post social updates
Through out the weeks and between blog posts, we ask the 5 students to use social media to share their stories.
Encourage discussion with others
This is the part where we ask all other graduating students to participate. and share their stories as well, but we highlight the 5.
[Closer to CACUSS, I will pull screenshots from the bloggers’ actual live blogs and quote things they have said or nice things that were said about them]
What is the online component? - BP
Start with a short “Why?” section.
Approach as a User’s Manual. What were the steps we took in general terms and then describe specifically what we did. This is the HOW TO.
[Closer to CACUSS, I will pull screenshots from the bloggers’ actual live blogs and quote things they have said or nice things that were said about them]
What is the online component? - BP
Start with a short “Why?” section.
Approach as a User’s Manual. What were the steps we took in general terms and then describe specifically what we did. This is the HOW TO.
What is the online component? - BP
Start with a short “Why?” section.
Approach as a User’s Manual. What were the steps we took in general terms and then describe specifically what we did. This is the HOW TO.
Andrew & Rachel
If you want to run something like this at your school, here’s some transferable ideas to consider based on our experience this year
WINS
We identified and connected with some of the key stakeholders regarding graduating student transition on campus.
Alumni was our first win - quite serendipitous.
Convocation was our BIG win - though it would take us at least a year before this happened, but some pre-existing relationships helped us get this department on board.
Collaboration
Off the side of everyone’s desk this year, as many pilot projects often are. Many hands make light work.
Meant that resources shared, both fiscal and human.
Our collective connections and abilities allowed us to do something that would have been next to impossible otherwise.
Met mandates for all of our departments and performance objectives for all staff involved.
The Last Lecture
Great speakers
Sense of occasion
Strong foundation to build on
Uptake in Hashtag
Give us momentum
Interest in Blogging
We had students who wanted to participate!
Supervisors who believed in us
Because we did our homework
We knew the #RoadToRyerson program had traction and that RUStudentLife came with social capital.
We knew our theory
We were good event planners
OPPORTUNITIES
Next year we will have more lead time
We want to expand the conversation
We’ve already had suggestions about who to bring into the conversation for next year because of the connections and the positive impressions we’ve made this year.
Staff lead conversation in the beginning - we need to continue to make it more of a student conversation
Last Lecture Attendance - we need to be more careful about registration next time because we had a tech problem this year
CHALLENGES
Space for events
Access to big spaces on campus is challenging.
This hinders our ability to get big name speakers because we can’t book them until we have a set date and we can’t get a set date until we have space booked.
We are an urban campus. There are a lot of distractions and our sense of community is challenging to create because we have so many commuter students.
Siloed campus at Ryerson, so sometimes there is more connection to Faculties and programs than centralized programming.
These are our challenges. Yours may be lack of social media resources or buy in from stakeholders that social media can work this way. Whatever they may be, we’re still making it happen, step by step, in spite of our challenges.
NEXT STEPS & FUTURE HOPES
Other units on campus will intentionally create activities to support our students’ transition out of higher education.
We have a vision to provide a year-round cycle of programming and support services promoted under #RoadToRyerson.
This could include participation from all six units within RyersonSA.
For example, the Counselling and Student Development Centre and Wellness could work on a campaign around the emotional and mental health aspects of transition, encouraging students to consider what the changes ahead might mean for them and learn about healthy ways they can adapt and cope.
The Career Centre could co-brand many of their job and career fairs, workshops, and career chats with the #RoadFromRyerson name.
Identify Stakeholders (2”)
Define Stakeholders
Think on your own about who the stakeholders are on your campus regarding graduating student transition (30s)
Share with large group (90s)
Identify Existing Support (9”)
Using template on the handout you’ve been given, on your own, take 3 minutes to: (3”)
ID something on your campus that currently supports GST
ID the phase of transition (according to Schlossberg’s theory) it addresses
ID the S (of the 4 S’s of Transition according to Schlossberg’s theory) it address AND the sub-category of that S, if possible)
ID where it is owned/housed on campus
Rinse and repeat as many times as possible in 3 minutes
Pair up and share what you’ve brainstormed with each other for about a minute each (3”)
Take it back to the whole group and share what you came up with (3”)
Identify Gaps (4”)
Think on your own about where some of the gaps are on your campus when it comes to GST (30s)
Share with the large group (3.5”)
Identify Opportunities (10”)
Think on your own about ideas you have - big OR small, it doesn’t matter - about new things you want to do to better support GST; something that meets a gap on your campus and turns it into an opportunity. Write it down if that helps. (2”)
Choose one idea. Tweet it out there as a way to commit to it. (3”)
We’re going to have a live feed here right now to see your ideas come up as a way to share those ideas. Later we’ll put together a Tagboard and send it out to everyone here so you can access all of your great ideas.
Use the following format for your Tweets: I commit to …….. @YourInstitution. #RoadFromRyerson
Could be committing to:
a conversation
research
reading
meeting
program
advocacy work
etc.